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annihilation

[uh-nahy-uh-ley-shuhn] / əˌnaɪ əˈleɪ ʃən /




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Using new data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Professor Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo now believes he has identified the predicted gamma ray signal associated with dark matter particle annihilation.

From Science Daily

These are post-hope works, in other words, absorbed by death and annihilation.

From The Wall Street Journal

The annihilation of George Armstrong Custer and the larger part of his Seventh Cavalry steeled the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Our audience lives in a world in which God has been banished. They live in daily fear of nuclear annihilation,” the director remarks.

From Salon

But the threat of annihilation has done nothing to slow them in their teenage rituals.

From Los Angeles Times